Barrack H Obama: What’s In a Name?

Not much. Bill Cunningham and others have been having some fun with the fact that Obama’s middle name is Hussein. That’s fine. They’re counting on the negative connotation that name has. Sadly, they’re right to. Sadly, there will be some people who won’t recognize the fact that it’s just a name, or that it has nothing to do with Saddam Hussein.
People like Alisyn Camerota, of Fox News. Speaking on the issue, she said there’s no negative connotation. She said, “It’s his parents fault.”
When it was pointed out to her that it was his father’s name first, she said, “Then it’s his grandfather’s fault.”
Fault, indicating it’s a bad name, after all. This is as foolish as Hillary Clinton once claiming in New Zealand, home of Sir Edmund Hillary, that she was named after him.
History lesson for dummies: Hillary Clinton was born in 1947. Sir Edmund Hillary didn’t climb Everest and become famous until 1953. She lied. Nobody in the USA had heard of Hillary in 1947. Her parents gave her the name for a different reason. Maybe they just liked it.
Ditto Obama. He was born in 1961. I don’t know when his father was born, but obviously it was a generation before him. Saddam Hussein didn’t become Iraqi president until 1979. Nobody in the USA had heard of him when Obama was named.
In fact, if one wanted to show a connection with Saddam Hussein, they could show this now famous picture…scroll to the bottom: The Washington Note

McCain is right to choose a different route of attack...though he's full of it when he says he never met Cunningham.